Re: Almost UP

Joerg Albert <[email protected]> Mon, 4 Nov 2002 23:39:31 +0100 (CET)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.atmel-wlan
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Alberto Favetta wrote:

> Hello everybody!
> I'm quite new to linux (I installed only once when Redhat was not born yet:)
> I have Mandrake 9.1 and a USB SURECOM EP-9001 wlan adapter...
> I used the drivers at berios (the ones on sourceforge didn't work) and
> *ALMOST* worked fine...
> This is what I see when i run iwconfig:
>
> lo       no wireless extensions.
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESS-ID:"WLAN"
>           Mode:Auto Channel:1 Access Point: 00:08:A1:42:94:A8
You seems to run version 0.10, which errornous accepts mode AUTO,
but doesn't handle it correctly. The cvs tarball does return an error on
this mode. Try to set mode managed:
	iwconfig wlan0 mode managed

/Jörg